Cougar Olympians
BYU has a strong history of swimmers and divers in the Olympics Games. Twenty two former Cougar student-athletes and one coach have competed at 11 different Olympics representing nine different countries.
| Men's Diving | |||||
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| Athlete Name | Event(s) / Position | Finish | Location, Year | Country | BYU Years |
| Keith Russell | Platform, springboard | 4th, 6th | Mexico City Summer, 1968 | USA | 1971-72 |
| Ricardo Velarde | Platform | 19th | Montreal Summer, 1976 | Mexico | 1977-81 |
| Justin Wilcock | 3-meter springboard | 32nd | Athens Summer, 2004 | USA | 1997-98, 2000-02 |
| Men's Swimming | |||||
| Athlete Name | Event(s) / Position | Finish | Location, Year | Country | BYU Years |
| Mike Burton (Coach) | 400m free, 1,500m free | Gold, Gold | Mexico City Summer, 1968 | USA | 1974-75 |
| Mike Burton (Coach) | 1,500m free, 4x200 free relay | Gold, Gold | Munich Summer, 1972 | USA | 1974-75 |
| Piero Ferracuti | 100m breast, 200m breast | Heats, Heats | Munich Summer, 1972 | El Salvador | 1975-79 |
| Oon Jin Gee | 4x100m medley, 4x100m free, 100m free | 16th, 17th, 42nd | Los Angeles Summer, 1984 | Singapore | 1984-87 |
| Ron Menezes | 4x100 freestyle relay, 100m freestyle | 10th, 28th | Los Angeles Summer, 1984 | Brazil | 1981-85 |
| David Lim | 4x100m medley, 4x100m freerelay, 100m back | 16th, 17th, 29th | Los Angeles Summer, 1984 | Singapore | 1984-87 |
| David Lim | 100m back, 4x100m free, 4x100m medley, 200m back, 200m medley, 200m freestyle | 14th, 15th, 17th, 31st, 34th, 43rd | Seoul Summer, 1988 | Singapore | 1984-87 |
| Ng Yue Meng | 4x100 medley relay, 100m breaststroke, 200m breaststroke | 17th, 41st, 47th | Seoul Summer, 1988 | Singapore | 1988-90, 1992-94 |
| Oon Jin Gee | 100m free, 100m medley, 100m free, 50m free, 200m free | 15th, 17th, 43rd, 45th, 46th | Seoul Summer, 1988 | Singapore | 1984-87 |
| Kai Kristian Johansson | 200m butterfly | 36th | Barcelona Summer, 1992 | Finland | 1988-93 |
| Tomislav Karlo | 4x100 medley relay, 100m backstroke | 16th, 34th | Atlanta Summer, 1996 | Croatia | 1989-93 |
| Arunas Savickas | 200m backstroke | 35th | Atlanta Summer, 1996 | Lithuania | 1997-2001 |
| Lee Yu (Gary) Tan | 100m backstroke, 200m backstroke | 45th, 37th | Sydney Summer, 2000 | Singapore | 1999-2004 |
| Arunas Savickas | 200m backstroke, 200m freestyle, 4x100m freestyle | 22nd, 22nd, 16th | Sydney Summer, 2000 | Lithuania | 1997-2001 |
| Jung Jun (Mark) Chay | 200m freestyle, 100m freestyle | 23rd, 47th | Sydney Summer, 2000 | Singapore | 2003-07 |
| Lee Yu (Gary) Tan | 200m individual medley | 43rd | Athens Summer, 2004 | Singapore | 1999-2004 |
| Diogo de Oliveira Yabe | 200m medley | 26th | Athens Summer, 2004 | Brazil | 2001-05 |
| Jung Jun (Mark) Chay | 200m freestyle, 100m freestyle | 51st, 56th | Athens Summer, 2004 | Singapore | 2003-07 |
| Andrew Rutherfurd | 100m freestyle | 41st | London Summer, 2012 | Bolivia | 2007-08, 2010-14 |
| Rafael Alfaro | 400m medley | 35th | London Summer, 2012 | El Salvador | 2010-15 |
| Josue Dominguez | 100 breast, 200 breast | 39th, 35th | Tokyo Summer, 2020 | Dominican Republic | 2018-23 |
